Preliminary ECS154B Class Outline
Lecture Topic Chapter Date
1 Introduction & History Chapter 1 Mar 29
Disc Machine Design overview Mar 30
2 Performance Mar 31
3 Performance Chapter 1 Apr 5
Disc Using Quartus, how to maximize lab grade Apr 6
4 I-set/implementation interaction Chapter 2 Apr 7
5 Instruction Sets Chapter 2 Apr 12
Disc Quiz Apr 13
6 Datapath, Control for single cycle MIPS Chapter 4 Apr 14
7 Datapath, Control for single cycle MIPS Chapter 4 Apr 19
Disc Quiz Apr 20
8 Multiple Cycle MIPS Appendix D Apr 21
9 Interrupts, Pipelining Chapter 4 Apr 26
Disc Quiz Apr 27
10 Pipelining Chapter 4 Apr 28
11 Pipelining Chapter 4 May 3
Disc MIDTERM May 4
12 Pipelining Chapter 4 May 5
13 Exceptions, Advanced topics, review Chapter 4 May 10
Disc Quiz May 11
14 Memory Heirarchy Chapter 5 May 12
15 Memory Heirarchy Chapter 5 May 17
Disc Quiz May 18
16 Memory Heirarchy Chapter 5 May 19
17 Multiprocessors Chapter 7 May 24
Disc Quiz May 25
18 Multiprocessors Chapter 7 May 26
19 Storage Chapter 6 May 31
Disc Quiz/Review Jun 1
20 Storage Chapter 6 Jun 2
Final: Wednesday, June 8, 1:00 P.M.